Re: [OT] Question from the news

Very interesting.   A warranty that works!

Gracias,
Glenn

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:19:59 -0700 "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com> writes:
>TOW's supposedly have a  maintenance free shelf life of 20 years.  So 
>they should be good for a few more years.
>
>--Binhan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: glenn m wilson [mailto:triphibious@juno.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 6:20 PM
>> To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
>> Subject: Re: [OT] Question from the news
>> 
>> 
>> Third world maintenance is worse than other kinds...  Will these 
>TOWs
>> still work?
>> 
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 17:50:16 -0500 Ryan M Gill 
><rmgill@mindspring.com>
>> writes:
>> >At 2:58 PM -0700 3/26/03, B Lin wrote:
>> >>
>> >>In SW Asia only US supplied allies use the TOW (Saudi-Arabia, 
>> >>Kuwait).  Iran has almost 2000 due to Iran-Contra.
>> >
>> >They also had a number of F-14s. Not that any one of them is 
>flyable 
>> >in combat form as they stopped receiving parts shipments way back 
>> >when.
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